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This is a red burnished globular flask with a wide mouth. The flask has been incised with decoration of horizontal bands at the neck and shoulder above an impressed design of triangles. From cemetery 300 at Meroe, Sudan...

This is a pinkish pottery bottle, through which Christian pilgrims took water from the healing spring of St. Menas near Alexandria. From Alexandria, Egypt. Byzantine period, 4th to 7th centuries CE. Unpublished. The Petrie...

This painted wooden stela depicts a man (his name is identified as Ihefy and his title was "the doorkeeper of the house of Amun") adoring the hawk-headed god Horus. Horus sits on a throne and holds a flail. There is a red...

This painted wooden stela depicts a woman whose name was identified as Neskhons; she was the wife of the High Priest of Amun Pinedjem (II). On the right side, Neskhons looks to the left and makes an offerring...

A Roman serving dish, probably for sauces, in blue glass. 1st-2nd century CE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

A Roman bronze cooking pot, 1st century CE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

A silver didrachm from the mint of Campania. The design shows a bull with a human head, 325-241 BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

A Roman copper as coin depicting Domitian and aulos and lyre players. 88-89 CE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

A Celtic bronze fastener, 7th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)

The remains of a Celtic wagon in bronze with wood reconstruction. 5th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Como, Italy)